Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, with each 

 country receiving a catch allocation of 4,000 

 tons. At the subsequent annual meeting, the 

 Russian Federation obtained the 1994 catch 

 allocation of 32,000 1, but its division among 

 the Baltic countries has not yet been 

 negotiated as of this writing. 



VL FISHERIES ADMINISTRATION 



Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet 

 Union, Lithuanian fisheries were 

 administered as a subsidiary of ZAPRYBA, 

 the Soviet Western Fisheries Administration. 

 The subsidiary was named LITRYBPROM, 

 an acronym for the Lithuanian Fisheries 

 Administration. Its annual catch of about 

 350,000 t was worth 550 million rubles in 

 1990. This figure includes both the high-seas 

 and the Baltic Sea catch. Of this total, about 

 US$50 million worth of fishery products was 

 exported, mostly through the Russian fish 

 trading company, SOVRYBFLOT. 

 LITRYBPROM 's initial capital investment 

 was reportedly 600 million rubles. 



On August 27, 1991, LITRYBPROM 

 was taken over by the newly established 

 Lithuanian Government following the 

 declaration of independence. The 



development of Lithuania's fishery policies 

 is currently the responsibility of the 

 Department of Fisheries which is under the 

 administrative supervision of the Ministry of 

 Agriculture. The current Deputy Minister of 

 Agriculture in charge of fisheries is 

 Almontas Rusakevicius. The management of 

 fishery resources and the licensing of vessels 

 allowed to fish in the Lithuanian economic 

 zone is administered by the Ministry's 

 Environmental Protection Department. 



VII. BILATERAL AGREEMENTS 



The Lithuanians are negotiating new 

 fishery agreements to replace the Soviet ones 

 that were assumed by Russia. In 1992 and 

 the beginning of 1993, fishery agreements 

 were concluded with Canada, Denmark (for 

 the Faroe Islands), and the European 

 Community; a Governing International 

 Fisheries Agreement (GIFA) was signed 

 with the United States. 



Denmark: In the Baltic Sea, a Lithuanian- 

 Danish joint venmre, between the Baltija 

 fishing company and an unknown Danish 

 company, operates 40 small trawlers and 

 lands up to 80 percent of Lithuania's 1993 

 Baltic catch quota of 10,000 t (which is 

 8,000 t less than it was in 1992). Another 

 11 trawlers are operated by the two other 

 state-owned fishery cooperatives. The 

 species caught include herring, sprat, cod, 

 salmon, and flounder. 



European Community (EC): On July 14, 

 1992, Lithuania initialed the draft of a 

 fisheries agreement with the EC. The 

 agreement would have entered into force 

 upon ratification by the Lithuanian and EC 

 authorities, but its current status is 

 unknown.'^ 



Faroe Islands: Lithuania concluded a 

 bilateral fisheries agreement with the Faroe 

 Islands (with the consent of Denmark). The 

 agreement provides Lithuanian fishermen 

 with a 1993 catch quota of 10,000 t of blue 

 whiting in the Faroese EEZ. In exchange, 

 Lithuania will allow Faroese fishermen to 

 catch 5,400 t of various species in the 

 Lithuanian EEZ in the Baltic."* 



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